in reply to Perl credited with changing the rules

I agree completely with apotheon. Many people, and it appears that even opensource legends are in this category, confuse Perl the language with the Perl the culture. The language and the abilities it provides in a clear and concise fashion are what has delivered the eulogy to the many disparate tools written in C that you would have had to squeeze different APIs together with. It has made the APIs to these "one tool, one job" thingies easier to manage and the functionality easier to include into your tool. Nothing more, nothing less.

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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